Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 168. (Read 119268 times)

Tonight is another big match between the two rival of the SPL being Al Hilaal and Al Nassr. With little enthusiasm I am expecting Al Nassr to be able to at least win their opponent one leg in several of their meetings that their opponent have won them without mercy. I know it will be an interesting match as usual provided Cristiano Ronaldo will be able to control his emotion, a job he has not been doing so well lately.

It is actually surprising that their most precious signing did not even contribute much to the team yet they got such amazing result. The only area they need to do more now is the AFC outings that have been terribly poor despite the fact that they dominated the KSA league. Maybe that is where they are hoping Neymar will do well for them from next season. If I am the coach, I will still keep Neymar despite what has happened this season.

Well obviously Neymar’s addition to this club was only financially as he wasn’t productive on the pitch because he was out on injury and I think the club didn’t consider his injury history before signing him. Well I think with his less productivity level, they might be willing to terminate his contract and bring in another big European player.

 ⁠Al-Nassr interest on Mo is one i love and would love to see how he fits in with Ronaldo and Mane in the team, I can already imagine how the attack will be. My fear still remains the shaky defense of the club as it could still be able to concede some crazy goals that it ought not to. ⁠At this point I understand if Al-Hilal is already tired of Neymar’s situation but I think it’s all their fault as they were to selfish to check his injury records and it got to this level.

 I think they just need to have a discussion with Neymar as regarding termination if his contract before making any decision. ⁠As For Salah, I think he will ve a great addition and I think clubs should also learn from Al-Hilal predicament and do a proper check on players before signing them up to the club as those players who aren’t checked could have some crazy injury crisis.

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Al Hilal did not consider carefully before he decided to bring in Neymar. Yes, they don't look at the situation where Neymar is a player who has a bad record with injury problems. Neymar is one of the players who has to go back and forth to recover from the injury he suffered, and Al Hilal does not see things like that. Even though this is a very influential thing, and a club should be able to look at that point of view before they decide to sign the player in question.

Now what can Neymar give Al Hilal? none at all. I don't blame Neymar for this, because after all no player wants to suffer injuries continuously, and that is what Neymar experienced. I just regret how Al Hilal just wasted money buying players who couldn't even make it into the squad list because they were suffering from long-term injuries. This is a very valuable lesson for Al Hilal in the future when recruiting players.

I agree. Neymar did not directly contribute to titles and victories. But on the commercial and marketing side, for sure. Because it was through him that the team became known to many more people, in a way he deserves all the money he received/receives because of what he brought. But in terms of playing ball, I really agree that there was nothing.

A large difference in points will certainly not be able to make Al-Nassr beat Al-Hilal, but this second meeting in the SPL will certainly be a match that has been eagerly awaited and surely Al-Nassr and Ronaldo fans want Al-Nassr win this second meeting because in the first meeting they lost. and of course this match will be an exciting match and it will be a shame if you don't watch it, but of course there is still hope for Al-Nassr to win in this second meeting.

In the SPL, Al-Nassr really has no hope of becoming champion, we'll see, but it seems certain that Al-Nassr will fight hard to win the trophy in the King's Cup because that is Al-Nassr's only hope. I agree with you that Al-Nassr is not very good in terms of defense and maybe that is one of the factors that makes Al-Nassr always lose to Al-Hilal.

Yes, Cristiano Ronaldo is a person who is disciplined and always maintains good health and I personally also believe that Cristiano Ronaldo would never use doping because Cristiano Ronaldo's performance on the field is already very great so it doesn't make sense if Ronaldo uses doping.

Neymar's contribution to the club may have been for a very short time as a commercial gain, other than that he did not contribute anything in terms of play, it would be best if they sold him and used that money for another transfer. For some reason, I feel like the Mohammed Salah transfer will happen. It would be really nice to see Mane and him together again and considering Cristaona Ronaldo, Al-Nassr may have no rivals in the Saudi Pro Legue with its attack. As a team, they don't have many options to compete with.

You're right. Ideally, the final match should be set before the competition started.
Well, it is not really clear about the time for King Cup final. I've read some sources, I got a different time for the final match. Fanzword stated that the final match probably will be held in May 30 or May 31. Meanwhile Flashscore said the final match will be in June, 01. Just wait for the official announcement, nothing is clear now.

- https://www.fanzword.com/al-hilal-and-al-nasr-in-the-kings-cup-final-the-date-and-all-the-details/
- https://www.flashscore.com/football/saudi-arabia/king-cup/#/Ys1ayg0F/draw

Of course, it will be an interesting match although it is only Saudi Cup final match. It will be broadcasting in many TV channels around the world. Again, this is because of the factor of Ronaldo. People want to know if Ronaldo can win the trophy for Al Nassr. Or he will fail again to give a trophy for Al Nassr. Personally, I hope Ronaldo will win the trophy.

The Al Nassr versus Al Hilal match tomorrow can at least be a reference for assessing the strength of the two teams when they face each other in the Saudi Arabian King Cup final. If the match is scheduled for early June, it will be the same as when the Saudi Pro League ends, and the final match is quite interesting to follow. Meanwhile, I think Al Hilal chances of winning the Saudi Arabian King Cup trophy are higher than Al Nassr, because we know that Al Hilal this season has not been touched by a single defeat at domestic level. Besides that, at their meeting tomorrow I also think the same, but I don't mean to underestimate Al Nassr.

In the Saudi Pro League, tomorrow victory will not mean anything for Al Nassr, because it is clear that Al Hilal this season has succeeded in locking in the trophy and ensuring themselves as champions. However, Al Hilal will remain ambitious to continue maintaining its unbeaten record until the end of the season, including in the final of the Saudi Arabian King Cup. It is possible that in tomorrow match the two teams will draw, considering that Al Hilal no longer has any interests other than continuing their positive trend, just playing a draw is enough for Al Hilal.

Al Hilal signed Neymar who's yet to make solid contributions to the club's progress. Neymar is no longer ambitious to win major personal awards because he made it clear about playing football for entertainment. Neymar Jr epic football career gave ended a long time ago because the Brazilian have failed to meet the standards setup for him as a professional player. Every horrible incident happen to him because he was an injury player, not consistently present for matches.

I checked the schedule match of Al Nassr upcoming several matches later and not find the final of Kings Cup between Al Hilal vs Al Nassr but have interested news with Cristiano Ronaldo underwent a doping test ahead of facing Al Hilal in the final match. The Kings Cup final match is very important for Al Nassr after losing in domestic league and this final match only one opportunity left for winning tittle in this season after getting failure in AFC Champion League or domestic league.

Before the final kings cup match, both team will face each other on Saudi Pro League match indeed Al Hilal have won domestic league its not get huge pressure indeed won or loss they have lead many points in domestic league.

Well, that also makes me feel strange, because we haven't been able to find out the date when they will hold the final match, because usually everything is determined even before the competition starts, I know for sure whether this is their federation's policy or what, because what I know is usually we can already see when they will play a full season. Maybe they will adjust the schedule, I don't know for sure about that.
But what is clear is that this will be an interesting match, because we will see 2 big teams that will compete in this final match. However, Al Nassr this season has not been able to beat Al Hilal, that's what makes me a little doubtful of them. However, it is also not impossible if they manage to win this match and heal their wounds a little because they did not succeed in winning the title this season. If Al Nassr has to suffer defeat again when they meet Al Hilal, it will be a hard slap for them.

I was looking for the match schedule for the final match between Al-nassr vs Al-hilal in the Saudi Arabia King's Cup. And based on the news I read, it will be June 1st. But if we look for it directly, it looks undetermined. But in some local news I found that it was June 1st.
(Sourch: https://www.rri.co.id/sepak-bola/667070/ronaldo-bawa-al-nassr-ke-final-piala-raja#:~:text=Sadio%20Mane%20juga%20mencatatkan%20namanya,pada%201%20Juni%202024%20mendatang.)

And this match will of course be the only hope remaining for Al-nassr to win the title in this competition. Because in the SPL Al-hilal have confirmed themselves as champions. But the Al-nassr vs Al-hilal match in the SPL will still make everyone curious. And it's about whether Al-nassr can break the unbeaten record that Al-hilal has to date in the SPL.

Interestingly the Cup finals date is nowhere to be found so far, meaning it is not set? Normally those type of things are set way before the season starts, or at least y now they are known in other leagues, why hasn't the king cups people (whoever makes that decision) hasn't put a date on that already?

It would be a great finals, a lot of people will watch it I am sure, and that would be the reason why people would give them money, to watch these games that matter.

Al Nassr versus Al Hilal during the regular season game won't matter, anyone can win and it will not mean anything, Al Hilal is long champions already and nobody cares about the result of that game, but the cup will be important, it will be another chance for Ronaldo to get another cup.

As we have some talk around for possible transfer of Mohammad Salah he is target of Al Ittihad not by the Al Nassr because they are looking for the defenders and midfielders which give them problems in this season they are already having strong attack which is enough for them into next season Allison is also target of the few Saudi League top clubs as we have latest updates most chances we will have some talk about these two players with most chances Liverpool want to keep them for one more season but its looking not easy for them.
Al Hilal is having good squad, and they are not interested to jump in transfer market but still it's not all clear because we have few weeks into this, and then we will have many ups and downs until end of this transfer window.

Hiring star players is a first brick of Saudi Professional League to advertise their league to more people globally especially European citizens. Because most of star players signed by Saudi Arabian clubs are from Europe or played in biggest European leagues for a long time.

It is a smart marketing strategy and in fact, the league succeeded with this strategy, begins with Cristiano Ronaldo, rumor with Messi, contracts with Benzema and Neymar, then some smaller star players. Generally their league gains success in marketing so far but how long will this strategy last because it will require massive budget for player transfer costs and player salary.

However the bigger challenge is will this expensive strategy help to improve quality of the league and domestic players then their national team generally in coming years?

The player transfer window has not yet opened, but news about player transfers is already very hotly discussed at the moment. And actually al-nassr has been targeting M. Salah since last season. So it's possible that this season they won't give up on getting M. Salah's signature in the transfer market. Apart from the name M. Salah, there are also other names. But what caught my attention was that there was even the name Bruno Fernandes, who is reportedly also being targeted by Al-Nassr. but I think it's just an issue because I read Bruno Fernandes' statement that he will remain in the Man United uniform next season. So it could be said that he still prefers to be in Europe even though he is still not old enough. But regarding M. Salah, this player is already 31 years old. And maybe one day M. Salah can go to the Arab league but I'm not sure about next season. Because Liverpool will definitely still really need him.

It seems like Al-Hilal only hires stars to promote their club and Neymar is at least doing that job on the sidelines while recovering from his injury. But of course we still hope to see his performance after his injury heals and strengthen Al-Hilal with the others.

On the other hand, I just heard that Mohamed Salah chose to go to Al-Nassr and if the news is true then Al-Nassr has a terrible trio which will be led by Ronaldo, Mane and Salah. That will make it even more difficult for Al-Nassr to stop scoring goals. But I doubt whether Mohamed Salah will really go to the Saudi league next season.

Neymar has celebrated this season championship with Al Hillal, although without contributing to all of Al Hillal success but he is indeed entitled to celebrate the championship trophy because of his status as an Al Hillal player today, Neymar injury this season he got after a few weeks of joining Al Hillal and automatically Al Hillal must continue to pay and also carry out Neymar treatment until his contract expires later,  But what surprised me was Al Hillal interest in Neymar all this time even though they knew that Neymar had a very long injury history, but instead they dared to buy Neymar from PSG at a fairly high price at that time and even dared to pay his salary high enough for players who often suffered injuries.


I think for next season Al Hillal no longer need to hope for Neymar, because even without Neymar in fact they can win the SPL unbeaten this season, so I think if Al Hillal are able to keep their main squad this season except Neymar of course they still can compete next season, maybe it's better for Al Hillal to terminate Neymar contract,so that Al Hillal can minimize their expenses or have slots for players Another Europe next season.

This is not Neymar’s fault, he received a very serious injury, the treatment of which takes a very long time. According to preliminary forecasts, he will be able to return to the game in mid-2024, but there are no exact data yet.

The contract with Al-Hilal expires in the summer of 2025 and after that Neymar has already announced that he is returning to his native Santos where he intends to end his career. So the transfer of Neymar for Al-Hilal turned out to be ineffective, but who could have known that everything would turn out this way, injuries in sports are an unpredictable thing.

Yes, the Al Nasr versus Al Hilal match this week is just to prove and maintain prestige. The reason is, the results of this match will not have any influence on Al Nasr or Al Hilal in the SPL standings. Apart from that, after Al Nasr's match against Al Hilal this week, it is true that there will be another Saudi Arabian King's Cup final match which will bring these two great teams together again. Maybe this competition is Al Nasr's only hope of winning a trophy this season, because in other competitions Al Nasr failed to win a trophy. So next week's match is very suitable as material for Al Nasr's analysis regarding Al Hilal's weaknesses.

However, in my opinion, looking for Al Hilal's weaknesses alone is not enough to win the Saudi Arabian King's Cup final. Because Al Nasr has met Al Hilal several times this season, Al Nasr should already know Al Hilal's weaknesses. However, in reality, Al Nasr has always failed in all its meetings with Al Hilal this season. This means that it is not only Al Hilal's weaknesses that must be looked for, but the Al Nasr team's weaknesses must also be corrected. And the biggest weakness that Al Nasr must immediately improve is its defense line. Maybe if Al Nasr can improve its weaknesses in the match against Al Hilal (in the SPL or Saudi Arabian King's Cup), I think Al Nasr can definitely beat Al Hilal.

And regarding doping, it is clear that it only aims to reduce the mentality of Al Nasr players a little. Because how could Al Nasr players use doping, let alone Ronaldo. Because as you explained, Ronaldo is a footballer who has very high discipline. Maybe if I said Ronaldo is the most disciplined soccer player in the world, I don't think that's wrong. So if accuse or suspect Ronaldo of using doping, in my opinion that action is very wrong.